全球城市外语能力指标体系构建

Developing an Evaluation Indicator System of Foreign Language Capacity of Global Cities

全球城市外语能力建设是国际化进程中城市治理的一项新议题。在全球化背景下,跨国跨地区的人员往来和人口流动日益频繁,为城市外语能力建设提出新要求。国内现有研究多以城市外语服务讨论为主,尚未从语言治理层面探讨全球城市外语能力指标体系构建问题。文本基于理论探索与国际实践两个维度分析城市外语能力指标体系的构成要素及经验做法,确定衡量城市外语能力的三大核心指标——外语资源、外语服务和外语战略,并在此基础上构建全球城市外语能力指标体系,以期为中国全球城市建设中的语言治理提供参照依据。

Building up foreign language capacity of global cities has become a new issue in terms of urban governance in the process of internationalization. In the context of globalization, increasing cross-national interactions and migrations in urban areas are posing new challenges to urban foreign language capacity building. Previous studies in the Chinese context focus on urban foreign language services, and few of them seek to construct an indicator system of foreign language capacity of global cities from the perspective language governance. This article discusses the components of an indicator system of urban foreign language capacity as well as the practice and experience of international metropolises. In so doing, three core indicators are identified, i.e., foreign language resources, foreign language services, and foreign language strategies, on which basis an evaluation indicator system of foreign language capacity is established in the hope of providing a frame of reference for the language governance in China’s global cities.